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Crwnsboi[o fJatijHrt.
ISSEY, Editor and Proprietor.
BH8BOBO N. C.
M lav, Merit, HI. 1SN1.
TOPICS OFTHE WEEK.
rorgeoM and the best
: min in the country are now
Reed, lii-inoiiatii: oaa-
■i i lohgress iii tin- Second
i • ~ii-^n«-il in favor of
Ibert, tin- Greenback <-^n-
. . a ho will run on a fusion
Tin- election which took
i needs,* reunited in the
il mi- Fusion in ket
GEEEySBORO, N. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1881.
Vortices is inclined to
-.- there will be objection
admission of the Senators
ii New York, and that
to be an investigation.
irbeee' opinions are by
• infallible. His guesses are
: ong than right.
rop, of < Ihins is some
■ :■. short. Lovers ol the
however, ueed DO) In-
)' situation. This de-licaus
neither ;i lack of tea
: great activity
;i' i -. Iiaj need, catechu,
- .jiil similar materials,
way in making ihe
A liepresentative of the Agricul
irtmPiil ;it Washington
i ; i in ('anadn toproduce
'»t* good winter
lie has found one
uks valuable, kuown
1" ■ r t J: i _\ variety.
I as :i bald wheat,
; tin, «lute chaff, and
F hi \\ > -linv.. 11 is a
and imiki
'■•• a In-,11 j j ield.
!■ referred to is so
I II il lliil in- lias
el ' ■' bn dicls,
ili him to
4more
■ • might do well to make
this.
riaotiraging development in
be expressed
ittle innocent divertise
a game of •■ seven tip."
- solid comfo't in the
ol bis bUvieg dis
il ol the si veil doe-
II attending him.
ii I thai he » as boured
. e of so many phv-it
i ipuenl argument in
not, thus far. under-lie,
u resume of the
i use. So many distiu-lesioual
authorities
i n» aitii Iheir opin-felt
a diflideuce in
ard a mere lay man's
We ili I subscribe to the
njiinioii thai he is conva-di
i In- cont i irj . we believe
and painful and no-es
>efore him ere
siahh IIO|II- io emerge
cade of
II powerfully bu-ll
h\ his independent action
mself .is against the
nl doctors, and we
Io Itelievc, lor the
II i- that tragic - ml of
i • ' he has a living eliamii
' sume his place
ul the nation. Thai
•"a may prove io be
devoutly trust,
the President would
J i .. I.:init \ in our
i on fend it!
giiinary fields, amid trials, sorrows
and disasters. im. als„ passing
away; while soon, too soon, nothing
will survive but the memorv ol
their unparalleled achievements.
These army reunions are both pleas
ant and profitable. They enable
old comrades to meet to talk over
the historic past and to "fight their
battles o'er again." But what is
more than all, at these reunionsthe
gallant dead are not forgotten.
I heir words and their deeds are re-membered
by their surviving com-rades,
While tear will bedew the
cheeks of many as they recall the
kind faces and the noble actions of
their old companions, who fell "on
the held of honor."
Even tbongh the comet's presence
does uot sigwaifze the end of the-world
it cannot be called a wholly
toolish generation that sees some
unaccustomed sigus in the times.
Never were the Reasons tho world
over so violently kuocknd oot of
their ordi-iary behavior. For months
we bave been hearing of the ab-normal
heats of Europe—with
droughts, earthquakes and what
not ol a disagreeable sort. The
winter, too, was uuexampled in
severity all over the Eastern world.
The abnormal is indeed the com
nion story over all the earth's Bur
lace, and we should bear with
philosophic resignation the sever-ities
of heat now put upon ns.
In Michigan, beside the corps, it
has so parched theearth and trees
that a casual spark has set llreto
a third of the surface of the |>en-insula.
In this belt of destruction
not only are the forests scorched
and burned, but dozens of thriving
villages have been consumed, and
with them the iiches of years and
sometimes the lives of men as well
as beasts.
These certainly are grave events
if considered as signs, hot for the
moment the country isn't inclined
to take the abstract view of them.
The thought ol the moment is
that thonsauds have been reudered
homeless; that the authorities of
Michigan appeal to the thoughtful
for help, and that auless the un-touched
Bast respouds promptly
to the stricken West the miseries
of starvation and bomelessucss
will supplement the cruel blows ol
lire and destruction. As to a rem-edy
for such frequently-recurring
disasters it is fairly doubtful wheth
er the ingenuity of men can cope
with tbe elemeuts of raiuless
weeks and a burning sun.
Anxiously tbey
11V L. V. F. BAHDOLI'II.
B'hold a Nation and a Chief iiubound.
Whilst ..„,.» daily watou |L„ auguriea !
>«t, aa of old, in blood of ftw:.,i I*.ssts,
Or Dght or jtuiUloaa birds, or drifting
clouds;
Bui in the ebbing life of martyred strength
ID Sintering pules, or fever's litefal flush.
Help.eaa ia he I .\.y, helped by power*
uueeeti ;
Weak froai Ihe blow, yet mrong to Slav or
, K«;
. 5K-'iiB f"r lifeitl,at h« net* serve hiaage
Aud all tbe ineiii.nr- of bis country's n*ed;
But shuddering n,ot to cio.a the turbid
flood,
If comes the summons. Thus roll on the
veeu
In rhythmic oadeucea of joy or fear.
Now and again tbe Subbaih clohii.g in,
1 o aeeui to claim lor him a Liglicr day.
Bound ia tho uobln womau at bis side—
loAimby »«-w,u aud most sacred tiea.
And yet by stronger tios of precious faith
And lojalty. to Duty and to God
Bound are the people,
wait
With bated breaih the whisiieis ol the
wire*
Which tell ol cheerful courage-danger—
hope.
Were it a question bnt of human help,
Of rescue possible to bravest men,
How suddenly would millions foi ward
rush
Bare their own breasts to bless their beta
fri«nd,
And save his life at peril cf their own !
Yet, no'Prometheus, bound by desperate
fate,
Is type of this onr stale of tad restraint.
1 here is an outlook from the bed ot pain,
Aud Chief and Nation a- e tbe Father's
wards.
HsSMNtki: "Le uill and kmxc thai I am
GW!''
Thns comes the order from the Great
Banns.
Alt thanks and glory to His Holy Name.
His people's prayers on wings of fai'li
may tly
And liud a welcome at the gracious
throne;
Tbe suilWer aud his friends, though
boiiiiil, are tret-;
The flesh is weak, bat tbo freed spirit
mounts
Above the paiu, ibo dread, tie anxious
thought
And. bowing to tho Will that never errs,
Floes pnfaet peam in perfect trust alone.
Financial Outlook.
(Washington Post.
So one who believes in the law
ot general averages, the entity of
nature or the justice of Divine
I rovidence, ,s either surprised or
|. armed at the shortness of some
of our great export crops and the
increased supply ,„• those prodm-ts
With 1880, or either of the two or
three years next preceding
Time, at last, makes aU thinirs
It is not given to one nation
New Series No. 700
oniesin Australia
I I lid aii- pruspi -ring
apidity. Theyex-and
are extend
. competing in
' trade with other
- still more ad-j
than the}
South Wales, whose
lust ascend to more
Is, dedicated fci,-
rti i-.lin-aiioii during
ria ap
IHMKKI iii increase the
•■» postal WITH*, and
learners. In
- x> o Zealand has
II il | Is
to i oiisidcrution
mil other public
• of steam
raliau col
ii.- Iheir com
ni the
ad from the
nil
- much carrj
mini .:- would
. .
lieu! is i-uii
i itlonies are the
gri at States; nor
lioiild the
the Iniled
i-anked among
- the world.
: union of the
mlverl mil will take
-a. Tennessee, on
nk the< unittee
lie present. The
undierland, will be
mj of the T.mi
ays will be
-1 remonies. Tims
Ine will mingle
n i thai Held
they contended as
" bile the issues of the
■ mini forget that
gallantly main
, m s„ many san-
An Attempt to Kill Gultesu.
WASHINGTON, 8ept.l3.—At 7
o'clock last evening an attempt
was made to bill Ouiteau ia his
cell. At that hour Battery B, sec-ond
artillery, was relieving Cap.
Gravcs's comm :nd which had been
on dntv at the jail the previous 21
hours. The battery arrived in three
wagons, in the liist ot which, was
seated First Sergeant Mason: As
the wagon drew np iu front of the
jail, Mason jumped out, threw his
nip aside, and with musket on
shoulder, proceeded to the right
wing of tbe jail. A fiew seconds
brought him abreast of the window
through which Ouiteau bad been
often seen. 1'utting bis gun to his
shoulder, the clear report which
rang through the jail told tbe
stoty of his intention aud act. Tho
ball grated Guitean'a bead and
penetrated his coat which was
hanging on the side of the cell
Sergeant Mason surrendered him-self
to his commanding officer,
('apt. HcGilvary, who immediately
put iiim under arrest,
-Mason is a native of Virginia,
and has been nineteen years in tbe
•ervioe. He says he eiiot for the
purpose of killing Goitean and
was sorry he missed him. fie bad
become tired of riding over cobble
stones to jiil every day to guard
the life ol euoh a enr as Guiteau.
so made up his mi.-.d to kill him.
We quote the following beauti-ful
lines by Dean Stanley, first
published after his death bj The
Spectator,and evidently written af
in- the death of Lady Augusta
Stanley:
"■nilDeath ns part.'
So speaks tho heatt,
When earh to each repeats the words of
Through blessing and throngh curse.
Fur hotter and for worse,
Wo will lu one, till that dread hour shall
coino.
' Life, witn its oniiad grasp,
Our yearning a.juls shall clasp,
By len-.!.-, love and still expeotant won-der;
In bonds that shall endure,
I ndiasolnbly sure.
. d iu dssth s!;..'l part our paths
asunder.
" /' 111 ■ r hi '
O vu:ce j-i't more divine!
That In ihe broken heart breaths hope
siibl:mo
Tbroojro lonely hours
And shattered powers
We still are one, despite of change aud
limn.
''Death, with his healing hand,
Shall once mure knit the band
Which needs but that one link, which none
may savor;
Till, thii.ugh tbo Only Good,
Heard, feit and understood,
Oar Ills iu God shall make us one forover-
Senator Brown, of Georgia, is to
become the fortunate owner of a re
markab'e suit of clothes. It is to be,
manufactured from raw cotton at
the A'l inta Exposition within the
space of 21 hours—the cotton to lie
picked, giuned, spun, dyed and
woven in public.
ABTHTTB'S I'ltAYitK.s ft),—Jrew
Yuri;. Sept. 8th.—Vice-President
Arthur remained quietly at his
bouse all day and did not attend
any of the churches where prayers
were being offered for the recovery
of the President.
MONOPOLIES—One of the most
interesting questions just now ig,
"What is a monopoly f The idea
implied by the word is that of
somebody or aometbiug that wants
to do ail the business to the exclu-sion
of everything and everybody
else. That this idea is carried into
the everyday lit.) ol many a mo-nopoly
is not to be denied. There
are gigantic companies which are
monopolies and there are little com-panies
which would be monopolies
it they could. The only reasons why
the smaller concerns are uot mo-nopolies
is that they have uot
enough money or that they are not
managed with the business ability
which is generally at the foooda
tioo of th« building of a monopoly.
There is an alxost universal desire
in the human soul to monopolize.
Most young men who begin busi-ness
aim at having the biggest es-tablishment
in town. Some ol
them succeed in the object, of their
ambitiou, aud in oonseqoeuee of
iheir success are unpleasantly spo-ken
of as monopolists by those who
are less suoeessfal. There ar« few pc r-sons
iu business, whether as iodi-viduals
or iu a corporate capacity
wbo would not like to buy out
some comopetitor or run hiui nut
of town. There are hardly any who
are willing to fake a solemn vow
and rigidly keep it, to the effect
that they will always afford every
competitor au even chance with
themselves.
Persons who call themselves
auti-munopolists are fond ol taking
meanures to reform, or even to
crush, what they are pleased to
cill monopolies. Simntimes they
overreach themselves. The people
in a little town which owes its exii
tenco to a railroad hold solemn
meetings and threaten the road
with almost ever} thing short of ex-tinction.
They are angry at it for
being bigger than they are. Forget-ting
that it is their chief benefactor
they pass ordinances which, il car-ried
ont, would tax it. to death.
Failing to recognize that but lor
its piesence they would have no
communication with the rest of Ihe
world they euact a law that the
trains of the monopoly shall pass
through the town at no greater
than faneral speed. There have
beeu casts in which monopolies,
vexed out e! all patience by the
petty conduct of the rulers of such
onr-horse towns, have taken op
their tracks aiiil gone by some
other direction, leaving the little
town to shrink into a '-deserted vil-lage."
Iu California, the other day,
ground was broken tor the Grnngc
ville and Antioch Kiilroad, which,
according to the announcement of
tbe projectors, is to be an "ami
monopoly" road. When the presi
dent ot the company broke the sod
be said: "In the name and behalf
oftheanti monopoly I break ground
on Ihe first anti-monopoly railroad''.
Sow,what do these projectors wish to
accomplish! Simply the destrnetion
of the power of the monopoly, flow
will they proceod to do itt Only by
becoming more successful and con-sequently
more powerful than the
monopoly now is When they do
this they will swallow the pressn
monopoly, aud thus they will them-selves
become monopolists. It is
the old story of the big fish eating
tbe little ones. The little fish con-scientiously
disapprove ol the big
ones and of their selfish ways of
gobbling that which is small. Bat
let the little fish escape tbe j.iws of
the big; let them grow up to be big
fish, and they are as real monopo-lists
as the most gigantic
Nrw York Drmorral*.
The Democratic State comniitteu have
issued a call for a State convention to
beheld at Albany 01; October 11. The]
also passed resolutions expressive of syia-pstby
for the President and his family
and stating that the bullet of f.o Sistttio
imperiled the couutry aa the diction
bauds of 1876 had done.
TIte Heroine of Ik. « kite lion...
According to Capt. Henry, ol the
Presidential household, the first
stampede of the doctors occurred
on Friday Ang. L'Ctb, a little after
noon. The symptoms then were so
extremely alaming that they held a
hasty consultation and made one
more tftort to struggle against what
appeared to be the inevitable de
cree of late. In spite of every ef-fort
they could make, it seemed
tuat the patient was rapidly sink-iug
aud his tenure of li/o only a
question of a few minutes or hoars.
Too greatest crisis of all had ap-parently
arisen. Another consul-tation
and it was decided that Mrs.
Gaifield should be immediately no-tified
to prepare (or the wort.t.—
Having came to this determination,
two ol their number visited Mrs.
Garfield in her room and plainly
laid before her what they believed
to be ihe real terrible facts in the
case. They said that it was useless
to struggle longer, that even what
they could do was little, aud ihe
limitation of surgery had been
reached. Tiicy stated the situation
as tenderly as possible, aud asked
that she no looser delude herself
with the idea of there being any
hope of recovery. This was really
the first time that they had formally
given up ihe case. It was then that
the pluck ol this Ii: tlewoman came to
the surface. Every feeling of love,
ami duty, and tenderness cf the
wile and mother came uppermost
in an instant. Rising erect before
them and firmly setting her lips
agaiust the expression ol the emo-tion
that struggled lor utterauce,
she bravely said :
" Gentlemen, yon shall not give
him tip. He is uot going to die;
he is going to live. I feel—I know
it. Go link to yonr post every one
of yon, and leave it nut uutil every
remedy i? exhausted—until death
itself has set his sea: upon him, for
I will not believe that he is dying.
Go back and do v, hat you can.' You
cannot do mote, bat don't give up.
lam bis wife and I say that we will
not give np nntil the end itself is
upon us."
•' In this t lyle,"say«Capt. Henry,
" she met ihe first stampede of the
doctors. This is not, perhaps, her
exact langu ige, bnt it conveys the
idea. There never was Bcch a
woman. She has never given way
longer than a minute or two at a
time to tl s di iplay of ti.-' grief
which ,•• (im a well-nigh consumes
her As - n i as these short paroz-
. i '.' '." would return
once more to her post, and seemed
to inspire t':o*e around ber with
the same indomitable spirit, with
the same limitless will, with Ibe
same supernatural energy. All
along she has borne herself with
the most remarkable grit I ever saw
in a woman. It beats all. While
the rest of us were weakening and
trembling between hopes and fears,
she, a weak woman as yon would
call her, seemed inspired wilh this
wonderful stamina of miud and
body. If Garfield owes his lite to
anybody, it is io Mrs. Garfield.—
But for her I believe he woald long
ago have suocombed to the icy
hand of death. To hei ihe Nation
owes it foi the preservation of his
life. This seems extravagent, but
[ tell yon weeannot give her too
much praise."
After weary, anxious aud prayer-ful
weeks the scene changes, it is
on Tuesday. Sept. 8th at Long
Branch :—" Crete," said Ihe Presi-dent
to his brave little wife, about
eleven o'clock this morning, as the
ringing strokes from the beliry ol
the Protestant Episcopal Church,
almost cross from the cottage,
reached his ears, " what are they
riuging that bell for!"
"Thatf said .\rs. Garfield, who
bad been wailing for the surprise;
" that's the church where we were
when yon first came down. They're
all going there to pray for you to
get well." and getting on her knees
.-he said : " Ami I'm going to pray,
too, James, that it may be soon, loi
I kuow already that the other pray-er
has beeu heard."
to enjoy permanent prosperity at
the -o.st of other nations. \\0,
even a protective tariff, piling im-posts
on the wares with which the
•icad-eat,..s of (heat Britain pay
for our wheat, corn, beef and pork,
can annul the laws of nature. We
bad tour successive great crops,
and we were enabled Io sell our
immense surplus at high prices DT
scarcity of food in Europe. TM
was the foundation of our great
prosperity. This brought in large
supplies ol foreign gold and kept
he balance of trade largely in OUT
favor.
We shall not haveMmud) wheat
this year at best by 60,000,000
bushels. The British market will
draw a large portion of its supply
from Bussia aud contiguous wheat
growing sections. Um „,. ghall
have all that we can use and a large
export surplus. This does not
mean misery or ruin. And, although
the corn crop will be short and
consequently the hog yield light,
vet we need fear no disaster. We
shall have enough and to spare.
There is no danger of a financial
crash. The horizon holds no men-of
a financial storm. With
gold coming iu from Europe iu
huge quantities, and an unliqui-dated
trade balance in our favor
of •100.000,000on which to draw.
we can face thefuture with a cheer-ful
mien.
ni officials make no doubt. Seatou, of the old Satioiml Tntelli
Then and Now.
[Coneord Hej-istcr.l
A short time ago Vance, Jarvis,
Worth and others were perfect]]
satisfied with the road in the hands
of that corporation, and glad that
they wen- rid of 'Besl & Uo.' Sud-denly
ii springs up before the as-tonished
gaze of the distinguished
trio, by their attention being called
toil by merchants who are feeling
ii. thai the Iticbmond ,\. Danville
road has about gobbled up all the
railroads in the State, and that that
Company is 'discriminating' on
freight chai ees.
In Virginia an enema was made
of the republican party and injected
into little Billy Mahone. in tbe hope
of Bavintr Ihe readjuster stomach
solid south.
STAB ROUTE ROBBERS.—Assur-ances
from Washington, unfortun-ately
not so explicit as they could
In- wished, are reiterated that the
Star route robbers have not been
forgotten during the President's
illness. The personages in charge
of the matter are, it is said, now
ready to take the eases into court
and treat Dorsey, Brady and the
others incriminated to* healthful
terms in the penitentiary. The
testimonycollected is to be submit
ted to the grand jury of the District
of Columbia and upon it. the aov-crnnie
the robbers will be broken. It is
rlKiracterislieof the met bod brought
about by long tenure of ower by a
party that the incriminated person-ages
should with apparent sincerity
demand access to the department
records. This has been the prac-tice
hitherto. Bo soon as a robber
was cornered lie tied to the spot
where the traces of his criminality
were to 1«- found and by the eon
nivance of party associates destroy.
ed the evidence. Until the records
in Washington are scanned bv a
party indifferent to the preceding
t'linelionaries or their regime there
will be no means of knowing exact-ly
the amount of robbery perpet-rated
since the change that came
over the party in power in 1870-1.
How .seriously the records muss
compromise the suddenly grown
rich statesmen the significant Bret
in the Interior Department in 1876
isan evidence.—Philadelphia Times
PKESTDENTTAI DISABILITY—
AX ENGLISH VIEW or THE QES-TION.—
In consequence of the ac-cumulation
of executive business
in the United Slates, the time
seems to be rapidly drawing near
when it will be impossible to go
any further, even provisionally,
without sonic arrangements tin-the
conduct of affairs during the dis-ability
of the President. Accord-ing
to common sense, that arrange-ment
should cease when the Presi-dent
again becomes capable, hut
the Supreme Court might not In-able
to reconcile a strict interprets
tion of the Constitution with com
mon sense and equity, although the
Vice President would doubtless in-willing
to acquiesce in any legiti-mate
scheme for removing the ob-stacles
founded on technicalities.
The American people have had
another warning that the machin-ery
of the Constitution is liable to
awkward hitches at points where
it would be dangerous to get into
a dead-lock.—London Timis.
"Swapinrj the Devil" &o.
[Concord Register.]
The effort to cheek the Richmond
& Danville railroad in its anaconda
grip, by wresting the Western road
from them on the mere quibble
thai the time to complete the ex-tension
was secured by 'fraud,1
and turn it over to •Best and his
Boston syndicate, is about as bad
policy as has been any of the
former acts of the State in this
matter. It is'swapping the devil
for the witch.'
What the People Want.
Statesville haiulnuiik: They waut
the Weslren K n.ro.nl finished and
conducted, without regard to poli-tical
influence?, upon business prin-ciples.
Tbey believe now that it is
being put through as rapidly as
possible and there appears no good
reason for disturbing tbe existing
status, if tbe controllers will only-come
to terms, as come tbey should,
upon the matter of discrimination
The condition of the Presideut
o. MS*|U(| IUO irnujuoiel Biuuinuu iios osou ceuuucouuurioaggiiungg ItUhSaLt ItShOe uhmalif- The IOter-OCCan SSyS li • ..'I 1*3 lULel'View W
and affording snlliwciit nutrition to breed papers may safely resume a man-devil, but Mr. G. st'll puts week. It v
euable the little fellow to split tbe their abuse of Vice President Ar- it iu the old way, " I'm a Stalwart had seen hi
uUJ .......I. t.Ih.a..r-. .. .,.„ a.-i ._.»m -~ -i_-*
Washington Notes.
[Correspondence PiTKior]
WASHINGTON D. C, Sept. 15—
Mr. Gowie, 5th Auditor of the
Navy, has received a letter from
voraohama, Japan, from Mrs. Man-eom,
wife of Willie P. Mangum,
flM*, late Consal of the United
otates at Tien-Tsin, China. She
states that the embalmed bodv of
hfr husband will arrive in New
"fork abont the middleot this mon-b
aaviag to attend to private unset-tled
business of Mr. Maugum's,
she will be detained iu the East
seme two or three months. She
therefore requests that tho friends
of her husband iu Washington will
deposit his rertaius in a vault in the
Congressional Burial Ground, where
Diplomatic aud consular officials re-ceive
final or temporary sepnlture.
W Den she comes, arrangements for
bis burial will be made.
Mr. Mangum was the son ot
Pnest.ey II. Mangum, of Wake
county, and nephew of the late dis-tinguished
Senator Mangum, after
whom be was named. Just before
the war he married Miss I,add, of
this city. 1 become acquaiuied
with Mr. Mangum about 1SJS or !).
Ue was an elegant gentleman, of
hne talents and solid worth.
In the Spring of 18C1, adhering
to the Northern caus;-, he was op-pointed
Consul to Ninpo, China,
ont in abont four years was trans-ferred
to Nagasaki, Japan. He re-mained
there some fourteen years,
when he accepted the consulship at
Tien-Tsin, where he died.
THE KOBTH CAROLINA MIDLAND.
Kailroad news, like "niggers" is
" mighty onsartain." It often needs
confirmation to make it reliable.
It is about as hard to obtain as it
is tenuous when you handle it.
A lot of Winstonians, friends ol
the proposed North Carolina -Mid-land,
have been in Alexandria and
this city for two or three days; but
not a word of their conferences
with Mr. Barbour and his associates
can be bad " for love or money," as
trie saying is. Along with them,
registered at the same hotel, are
two or three Northern gentleineu
believed to be capitalists. The
North Carolina delegation is com-posed
as follows : II. \V. Tries,
Salem ; A. II. Phfol, C. B. Gorrell
aud P. A. Wilsou. of Winston.—
Senator Butler, of Sooth Carolina,
is also here.
NORTH CAROLINA NOTES.
Mack Seatou, Esq., sou ol W. \V.
About Vine
gmeer, is Cuiei Clerk of the Pen-sion
Office.
Mr. Kobert K. Cotton, of Pitt
county, is here to leavo his daugh
tcr aud another young lady at
school in Georgetown. Haven't we
some North Carolina seminaries for
young women!
The irresistible Joseph G. Hester,
who has been very quiet for several
months, has broken oot iu a new
place. He has invented and patent-ed
a new steel pen. May he not
find the "pen mightier than the
swo-rdi," w--.i-i-h- w...h..i.c..h. h...e. i..s. s.,a,.i,.d■ tivo .... ........... , ,,v IUI^ |iriun, n .
have slaiu his fellow marine in the So much for American enterprise."
Confederate war ?
The Christmas case will hardly
come up before the first week iu
October. The grand jury bave a
giea; deal ot business ueluio them,
ineluding a number of morder
WCR. They will take early action
II the Uowgato aud Star Bonte
matters. C. W. U.
DEATH OP DELMONICO:—The
deathol Lorenzo Dehnonicothecele-brated
catererofNew i*ork,app< ars
to have caused a feeling of univer-sal
regret, not only amongtbe young
bloods who frequented his famous
iptOWII house, but by II1UI1J of the
•bon ton" who, several times a
month, dined there with iheir fam-ilies.
Mr, Dfliuiiiticn died a victim
to excessive smoking. His cigars
Were made expressly for lliln ill
Havana, and were length) andverj
rtrong. He would smoke ."iddaily.
He began without a eenl in ls.U.
ud has died werthover$2,04)0,000.
and except iu the matteroftoliacco
is said never to have been guilty i f
.lersonal extravagance, lie was
justly proud of the business he had
built up. and noi long ago remark-ed
that there were uo celebrated
divines, lawyers, authors, actors,
doctors, politicians, or social lions
that had not been dined and wined
in his establishments, to say noth-ing
of distinguished visitors from
abroad.
Among others wa- Louis Nupo-li
afterwards Kinperor of the
French, who returned to dine there
daily with James Walleek. This
compliment Dehnonico hugged to
his soul, for be was an ardent ad
mirerof the Napoleons, and used to
wear a lockofNapolcan Hoiiapurte's
hair in the locket ol his watch chain,
and would not, he said, take si".
000 lor it.
De often furnished dinners that
cost from 810,000 to 830,000, and
one time when Jim FrVfc, at I p. in.
ordered a dinner al the Erie build-ing
for 0 p. in., for 150 persons,
Dehnonico had ii ready at sharp 0.
His family will ran his different
restiiianis. but the face ofthe quiet
unassuming little man. who hover-ed
around the dining-room or about
the cashier's desk, has vanished
from the scene ol 11i- glory forever.
Mr. Johu Kelly seems to ' ■■ e ia
pleting arrangements lor laying out
tbe New York Democracv again
this fall. He has had so much ex-penence
that the thmg comes handy riehtiu the end
to him now. ——
ol tbe Stalwarts!"
Wines—Tokay
yard.
[Cur. of ihe News and Obssrrer.l
TOKAY VINEYARD.
rivrTTEvAin. N. C.Sept. 12. 18S1
Myatteutiou baa beeu called ti
the local paragraph in yonr Satnr
V*J.8 l8SUe respecting native wines
Whilst it is undonbtedly true, a^
stated, thar immense quantities oi
American wines are auuoally ship
ped to French ports, and there cased
and labeled and branded with for-eign
marks and then reshipped ami
sold in their native land, at ar.
enormous advance, to those who re
quire a •• foreign" article, neverthe
less justice to myself and mv pal
rons demands that it be added that
there is no difficulty in disposing ol
all that is made at "Tokay."' U\
experience so far has been thai
every gallon of "the marketable
crop is either sold or engaged long
before the succeeding crop is pui
ou tbe market. The demand is
steadily increasing and I feel con-fident
that if the yield were fifty
thousand gallons a year, as we au
ticipate its being within tbe next
year or two, tbe result wonid be the
same. Kven this season, with all
untoward circumstances resulting
from the unprecedented dronght,
we confidently count on hall the
quantity. Hut not to digress. Il
the evil complained of in your ar
tide went no further than that sug
gested, it would only hive theef
tectol parting foolsand their money.
That class, as a mle, despise the
economical and prefer " the high
priced"' in all things, though in
ferior. Wine at a dollar a gallon
is too plebeian. It is their harm-less
whim to pay lour or five prices
for the self same article, eucased in
European packages, in order to en
jay " the reputation" of driuking
the juices of ihe Bliine, the Moselle
or the Douro. But we have the
high authority ot tin. American
Wine and Grape Qromr. as well as
that ol several of tho leading "dail-ies"
of the day, who have investi
gated the subject, for saying that
American wines, like some Ameri-can
citizens who go abroad, are sad
ly contaminated by contact with
vile" bogus" admix;tires; in oilier
words, that they are "doctored''
and flavored, and "blended" with
the refuse of the French winepress,
until their own parents would uover
recognize their denationalized off-spring.
But i; is well known, ac-cording
to the authorities quoted,
that in their briel sojourn on foreign
Soil, they lire adulterated wilh some
of the deadliest drugs known to
the chemist, in older to give "body"
aud increased "bun.'." This ia the
little "honest penny" or perquisite
of the " mixer," a " professional" ol
European origin. We occasional!)
get an intimation as to what extent
meat, aud drink adulteration is car-ried
on iii this " blessed country.p
Sugar, syrups, ground coffee, Hour,
spicex, corn wine (vulgarly called
whisky) and a host of other articles
of daily diet, are replete with poison
ons compounds. Shame on oui
"aw makers that they permit ii
Familiar Quotations.
Grave judges and others learned
in the law, have contributed their
qnots, as iu duty bound, to the com-mon
stock of popular sayings. It
is Frauds Bacon who speaks of
matters that "come home to men's
baainess and bosom," who lays
down the axioms that " Knowledge
is power," and who utters that
solemn warmug to euamored bene-dicts,
•• He that bath a wife aud
children hath giveu hostages to
fortune." We have the biirh an-thority
of the renowned Sir Edward
Uoke for declaring that "corpora-tions
have no souls," aud that "a
man's house is his castle." The ex-preasion
"an accident of au acci-dent,"
is borrowed from LordThar-low.
"The greatest happiness of
the greatest number," occurs iu
Beatham, bat is an acknowledged
translation from the Imrued jurist
Beeearia. To Leviathan Bobbes
we owe the sago maxim, " Words
are wise men's counters, but the
money of fools." It is John Selden
.vim suggests that by throwing a
Straw into the air you may see the
way ot the wind; and to his con-temporary
Ozeostiera is due the
discovery, "With how little wis-dom
the world is governed." Ma«k-i
first used the phrase, "A
wise and iu isterly inactiv.'y.' -Tiie
schoolmaster is abroad," is from a
speech by Lord Brougham. It does
not iin-aii that the teacher is
"abroad," in the sense of being ab-
-••nt, as many seem to interpret the
phrase, bul that he is " abroad"' iu
riii-sen.se of being everywhere at
work. In tfa ■ lamiliar phrase," A
delusion, a mockery and a snare,"
'here is a certain Biblical riug,
winch has some times led to its be-ing
qao:( il as from one or other of
theHebrew prophets; tbowordsare
in fact, an extract Irom the judg-ment
ol Lord Denman at tbe trial
of OKJooDell.—Chamber's Journal
Wiuo until lately has been ■
European specialty. Why no! the
''enterprise" of the Old World keep
pace wi'h that of the New in this
ber special production 1
It is self evident, if uot axiomatic,
that the nearer the source ol sup
ply the purer the article. The origi-nal
manufacturer, whether ol meat
or drink, dale not resort to these
base expedients.
In conclusion, ii is a weli known
statistical fact that lor the past lew
tears ihe production ol pure Euro-pean
win- shas beeu entirely inade-quate
to the home dem ind, and is
steadily decreasing. Deuce, what
light has the American consumei
in assume, as he" sips his sherry,
port or sauterne, that the mixer or
ci.mj ounder is giving him t!-" gen
nine Staff, when they know lull well
that IbeAbominable com pounds will
satisfy bis fashionably vitiated
taste equally welll Toe bon
ropean) palate, being ace:
to, demands and requires the genu-ine
article. Facts are stubborn
things, but facts.
W. ,1 G B1 SEN.
THETEUB WIFK:—The truewife
is often unfashionable in loving ber
husband and him only,in not caring
to attract idle udunri.ti«.u or tbe
homage ol tbe more serious ad ired
When she married it was lor love,
pure and simple; mid she did not
look to her wifebood as to ber pa-pers
of release from control and her
charter for nniimitt ,1 freedom. She
has no very decided opinioni oi
politics, woman's rights, or the
doctrine of late and free-will. She
slips insensibly, and by the natural
training of love, into the groove ol
though: v ii.-le tin ii fivl .
himself, and holds bis position to be
the best of all because it is Ins. She
is more co-lent with his lame thai
she would be with In r own ; indeed,
-In- finds hers in Ins, and would not
care to be-a personage on her own
sccouot. She desires for hem f,
for her honor and rapn me i eraonal
happiness, only his love, only bis
healib and prosperity; aud so loug
M lie is sab', her star is without a
cloud to veil its happiness.
Six Nevada widows, each worth
over (300,000, have formed .i ci m-pact
and solemnly agreed to take
no men but editors lor second hus-bands.
Gentlemen, even in tin-darkest
hour we have stuck to it
that things would work out all
This Forest Fires.
OlHOimuTTi, Sept 12.—The foi.
IOWIDR appeal has been telegraphed
from POM iloroo.
To the American people: We have
tonight returned from the burned
district of Huron aud Ban Ilae
counties.
We bave seen burnt, disfigured
and writhing bodies of men, women
and children ; rough board coffins
contained the dead followed to the,
grave by a few blinded, despairing
relatives; crowds ol half-starved
pi Ople at some of the slations, ask-ing
bread for their families and
iii ighbors.
We hear of mine than "00 vic-tims
already burned and more char-red
and bloated bodies are daily
discovered. Already more than
1500 families are. found to be utter-ly
destitute and houseless. They
are huddled in barns, in school-houses
and in their neighbor's
bouses, scorched, blinded and help-less:
Bonn still wander hall crazed
around tbe ruins of theii habita-tions
vaiuly seeking their dead;
some iu speechless agony wringing
their hands and refusing iota-com-forted.
Mon- than iii.nun people,
who only a week ago occupied hap-py,
comfortable homes, arc today
houseless and homeless sufferers.
They were hungry and almost
naki-d, when louud, and iu such
numbers and BO widely seatterad
that our best efforts and great
resources fail to supply their im-mediate
wants. Without speedy
aid many wiil perish and many will
suffer and become exilea
Our people will do their utmost
for then relief, but all our resources
would tail io meet their necessities.
We apjieal to the charity ami geoi
rosity ol tbe Americau peop i
Bend help without del \\.
E 0, OARLKTON,
Mayor ol Port Huron I .. dr-
IIIIIII ol Me iel I lomn
v. iiliam Uanrafl I ,\ Ward,
Oharles II. Peek, Johu i'. Sanboro,
Omer I). Conger, Peter [J. Sanl
Envious People-
Tbe em ion novi r rej lice in the
turn ol theii (Mends. Di-rectly
a man ria a in lil - they come
to the front with a story about his
low origin, an I wonder that so Ob
scure an individual should ever
have amounted to anything. The
fact that be has amounted to some-thing,
that he has proved nimsi II a
success, si i- u ike some of Ins
aequ uu ancea i -. . hat they bave
been rubbed in a mauner, and
by so much he baa risen above
them in pa itiou or influence, by so
much tbey are dwarfed. Men who
bave groped iliodlj to find a lining
: I ic loi their talents find it. and
with it e an s naturally apprecia-tion,
'.■.■'!; ; ity.
Can Foi une cause any-thing
but n i liciug in a magnani-mous
and noule mindf One thing
is ciiii'i: the man or wnmun who
is occupied in picking to pieces Un-crown
lawlully won by a successful
neighbor, is uot likely ever to wear
oue; for the lime thns spent is
worse than wasted, aud the disposi-tion
that can find pleasure in em-ployment
so iguomiuious and de-grading,
eau never Had those as-pirants,
labors and toils congenial,
which bring deserved reputation,
honor and success.
Gen, ,!' -eph K. Johnston has
written a letter expressing regie!
that pressing business eugagemi ota
will prevent him Irom attending
tbe reunion ol the Nerih Carolina
ex-Conlederate Bairigb
during the approaehii _ State lair.
He says he " could Bod few gruti.
SECRKTAUV WISDOM had a briel: licatious in the world i qual to that
interview with the President 1».-' ( ot meeting again the North Caro-
was the first time be i hnians with whom he served in the
im since the President most trying times that this century-was
shot. i has ever known."

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TOPICS OFTHE WEEK.
rorgeoM and the best
: min in the country are now
Reed, lii-inoiiatii: oaa-
■i i lohgress iii tin- Second
i • ~ii-^n«-il in favor of
Ibert, tin- Greenback -linv.. 11 is a
and imiki
'■•• a In-,11 j j ield.
!■ referred to is so
I II il lliil in- lias
el ' ■' bn dicls,
ili him to
4more
■ • might do well to make
this.
riaotiraging development in
be expressed
ittle innocent divertise
a game of •■ seven tip."
- solid comfo't in the
ol bis bUvieg dis
il ol the si veil doe-
II attending him.
ii I thai he » as boured
. e of so many phv-it
i ipuenl argument in
not, thus far. under-lie,
u resume of the
i use. So many distiu-lesioual
authorities
i n» aitii Iheir opin-felt
a diflideuce in
ard a mere lay man's
We ili I subscribe to the
njiinioii thai he is conva-di
i In- cont i irj . we believe
and painful and no-es
>efore him ere
siahh IIO|II- io emerge
cade of
II powerfully bu-ll
h\ his independent action
mself .is against the
nl doctors, and we
Io Itelievc, lor the
II i- that tragic - ml of
i • ' he has a living eliamii
' sume his place
ul the nation. Thai
•"a may prove io be
devoutly trust,
the President would
J i .. I.:init \ in our
i on fend it!
giiinary fields, amid trials, sorrows
and disasters. im. als„ passing
away; while soon, too soon, nothing
will survive but the memorv ol
their unparalleled achievements.
These army reunions are both pleas
ant and profitable. They enable
old comrades to meet to talk over
the historic past and to "fight their
battles o'er again." But what is
more than all, at these reunionsthe
gallant dead are not forgotten.
I heir words and their deeds are re-membered
by their surviving com-rades,
While tear will bedew the
cheeks of many as they recall the
kind faces and the noble actions of
their old companions, who fell "on
the held of honor."
Even tbongh the comet's presence
does uot sigwaifze the end of the-world
it cannot be called a wholly
toolish generation that sees some
unaccustomed sigus in the times.
Never were the Reasons tho world
over so violently kuocknd oot of
their ordi-iary behavior. For months
we bave been hearing of the ab-normal
heats of Europe—with
droughts, earthquakes and what
not ol a disagreeable sort. The
winter, too, was uuexampled in
severity all over the Eastern world.
The abnormal is indeed the com
nion story over all the earth's Bur
lace, and we should bear with
philosophic resignation the sever-ities
of heat now put upon ns.
In Michigan, beside the corps, it
has so parched theearth and trees
that a casual spark has set llreto
a third of the surface of the |>en-insula.
In this belt of destruction
not only are the forests scorched
and burned, but dozens of thriving
villages have been consumed, and
with them the iiches of years and
sometimes the lives of men as well
as beasts.
These certainly are grave events
if considered as signs, hot for the
moment the country isn't inclined
to take the abstract view of them.
The thought ol the moment is
that thonsauds have been reudered
homeless; that the authorities of
Michigan appeal to the thoughtful
for help, and that auless the un-touched
Bast respouds promptly
to the stricken West the miseries
of starvation and bomelessucss
will supplement the cruel blows ol
lire and destruction. As to a rem-edy
for such frequently-recurring
disasters it is fairly doubtful wheth
er the ingenuity of men can cope
with tbe elemeuts of raiuless
weeks and a burning sun.
Anxiously tbey
11V L. V. F. BAHDOLI'II.
B'hold a Nation and a Chief iiubound.
Whilst ..„,.» daily watou |L„ auguriea !
>«t, aa of old, in blood of ftw:.,i I*.ssts,
Or Dght or jtuiUloaa birds, or drifting
clouds;
Bui in the ebbing life of martyred strength
ID Sintering pules, or fever's litefal flush.
Help.eaa ia he I .\.y, helped by power*
uueeeti ;
Weak froai Ihe blow, yet mrong to Slav or
, K«;
. 5K-'iiB f"r lifeitl,at h« net* serve hiaage
Aud all tbe ineiii.nr- of bis country's n*ed;
But shuddering n,ot to cio.a the turbid
flood,
If comes the summons. Thus roll on the
veeu
In rhythmic oadeucea of joy or fear.
Now and again tbe Subbaih clohii.g in,
1 o aeeui to claim lor him a Liglicr day.
Bound ia tho uobln womau at bis side—
loAimby »«-w,u aud most sacred tiea.
And yet by stronger tios of precious faith
And lojalty. to Duty and to God
Bound are the people,
wait
With bated breaih the whisiieis ol the
wire*
Which tell ol cheerful courage-danger—
hope.
Were it a question bnt of human help,
Of rescue possible to bravest men,
How suddenly would millions foi ward
rush
Bare their own breasts to bless their beta
fri«nd,
And save his life at peril cf their own !
Yet, no'Prometheus, bound by desperate
fate,
Is type of this onr stale of tad restraint.
1 here is an outlook from the bed ot pain,
Aud Chief and Nation a- e tbe Father's
wards.
HsSMNtki: "Le uill and kmxc thai I am
GW!''
Thns comes the order from the Great
Banns.
Alt thanks and glory to His Holy Name.
His people's prayers on wings of fai'li
may tly
And liud a welcome at the gracious
throne;
Tbe suilWer aud his friends, though
boiiiiil, are tret-;
The flesh is weak, bat tbo freed spirit
mounts
Above the paiu, ibo dread, tie anxious
thought
And. bowing to tho Will that never errs,
Floes pnfaet peam in perfect trust alone.
Financial Outlook.
(Washington Post.
So one who believes in the law
ot general averages, the entity of
nature or the justice of Divine
I rovidence, ,s either surprised or
|. armed at the shortness of some
of our great export crops and the
increased supply ,„• those prodm-ts
With 1880, or either of the two or
three years next preceding
Time, at last, makes aU thinirs
It is not given to one nation
New Series No. 700
oniesin Australia
I I lid aii- pruspi -ring
apidity. Theyex-and
are extend
. competing in
' trade with other
- still more ad-j
than the}
South Wales, whose
lust ascend to more
Is, dedicated fci,-
rti i-.lin-aiioii during
ria ap
IHMKKI iii increase the
•■» postal WITH*, and
learners. In
- x> o Zealand has
II il | Is
to i oiisidcrution
mil other public
• of steam
raliau col
ii.- Iheir com
ni the
ad from the
nil
- much carrj
mini .:- would
. .
lieu! is i-uii
i itlonies are the
gri at States; nor
lioiild the
the Iniled
i-anked among
- the world.
: union of the
mlverl mil will take
-a. Tennessee, on
nk the< unittee
lie present. The
undierland, will be
mj of the T.mi
ays will be
-1 remonies. Tims
Ine will mingle
n i thai Held
they contended as
" bile the issues of the
■ mini forget that
gallantly main
, m s„ many san-
An Attempt to Kill Gultesu.
WASHINGTON, 8ept.l3.—At 7
o'clock last evening an attempt
was made to bill Ouiteau ia his
cell. At that hour Battery B, sec-ond
artillery, was relieving Cap.
Gravcs's comm :nd which had been
on dntv at the jail the previous 21
hours. The battery arrived in three
wagons, in the liist ot which, was
seated First Sergeant Mason: As
the wagon drew np iu front of the
jail, Mason jumped out, threw his
nip aside, and with musket on
shoulder, proceeded to the right
wing of tbe jail. A fiew seconds
brought him abreast of the window
through which Ouiteau bad been
often seen. 1'utting bis gun to his
shoulder, the clear report which
rang through the jail told tbe
stoty of his intention aud act. Tho
ball grated Guitean'a bead and
penetrated his coat which was
hanging on the side of the cell
Sergeant Mason surrendered him-self
to his commanding officer,
('apt. HcGilvary, who immediately
put iiim under arrest,
-Mason is a native of Virginia,
and has been nineteen years in tbe
•ervioe. He says he eiiot for the
purpose of killing Goitean and
was sorry he missed him. fie bad
become tired of riding over cobble
stones to jiil every day to guard
the life ol euoh a enr as Guiteau.
so made up his mi.-.d to kill him.
We quote the following beauti-ful
lines by Dean Stanley, first
published after his death bj The
Spectator,and evidently written af
in- the death of Lady Augusta
Stanley:
"■nilDeath ns part.'
So speaks tho heatt,
When earh to each repeats the words of
Through blessing and throngh curse.
Fur hotter and for worse,
Wo will lu one, till that dread hour shall
coino.
' Life, witn its oniiad grasp,
Our yearning a.juls shall clasp,
By len-.!.-, love and still expeotant won-der;
In bonds that shall endure,
I ndiasolnbly sure.
. d iu dssth s!;..'l part our paths
asunder.
" /' 111 ■ r hi '
O vu:ce j-i't more divine!
That In ihe broken heart breaths hope
siibl:mo
Tbroojro lonely hours
And shattered powers
We still are one, despite of change aud
limn.
''Death, with his healing hand,
Shall once mure knit the band
Which needs but that one link, which none
may savor;
Till, thii.ugh tbo Only Good,
Heard, feit and understood,
Oar Ills iu God shall make us one forover-
Senator Brown, of Georgia, is to
become the fortunate owner of a re
markab'e suit of clothes. It is to be,
manufactured from raw cotton at
the A'l inta Exposition within the
space of 21 hours—the cotton to lie
picked, giuned, spun, dyed and
woven in public.
ABTHTTB'S I'ltAYitK.s ft),—Jrew
Yuri;. Sept. 8th.—Vice-President
Arthur remained quietly at his
bouse all day and did not attend
any of the churches where prayers
were being offered for the recovery
of the President.
MONOPOLIES—One of the most
interesting questions just now ig,
"What is a monopoly f The idea
implied by the word is that of
somebody or aometbiug that wants
to do ail the business to the exclu-sion
of everything and everybody
else. That this idea is carried into
the everyday lit.) ol many a mo-nopoly
is not to be denied. There
are gigantic companies which are
monopolies and there are little com-panies
which would be monopolies
it they could. The only reasons why
the smaller concerns are uot mo-nopolies
is that they have uot
enough money or that they are not
managed with the business ability
which is generally at the foooda
tioo of th« building of a monopoly.
There is an alxost universal desire
in the human soul to monopolize.
Most young men who begin busi-ness
aim at having the biggest es-tablishment
in town. Some ol
them succeed in the object, of their
ambitiou, aud in oonseqoeuee of
iheir success are unpleasantly spo-ken
of as monopolists by those who
are less suoeessfal. There ar« few pc r-sons
iu business, whether as iodi-viduals
or iu a corporate capacity
wbo would not like to buy out
some comopetitor or run hiui nut
of town. There are hardly any who
are willing to fake a solemn vow
and rigidly keep it, to the effect
that they will always afford every
competitor au even chance with
themselves.
Persons who call themselves
auti-munopolists are fond ol taking
meanures to reform, or even to
crush, what they are pleased to
cill monopolies. Simntimes they
overreach themselves. The people
in a little town which owes its exii
tenco to a railroad hold solemn
meetings and threaten the road
with almost ever} thing short of ex-tinction.
They are angry at it for
being bigger than they are. Forget-ting
that it is their chief benefactor
they pass ordinances which, il car-ried
ont, would tax it. to death.
Failing to recognize that but lor
its piesence they would have no
communication with the rest of Ihe
world they euact a law that the
trains of the monopoly shall pass
through the town at no greater
than faneral speed. There have
beeu casts in which monopolies,
vexed out e! all patience by the
petty conduct of the rulers of such
onr-horse towns, have taken op
their tracks aiiil gone by some
other direction, leaving the little
town to shrink into a '-deserted vil-lage."
Iu California, the other day,
ground was broken tor the Grnngc
ville and Antioch Kiilroad, which,
according to the announcement of
tbe projectors, is to be an "ami
monopoly" road. When the presi
dent ot the company broke the sod
be said: "In the name and behalf
oftheanti monopoly I break ground
on Ihe first anti-monopoly railroad''.
Sow,what do these projectors wish to
accomplish! Simply the destrnetion
of the power of the monopoly, flow
will they proceod to do itt Only by
becoming more successful and con-sequently
more powerful than the
monopoly now is When they do
this they will swallow the pressn
monopoly, aud thus they will them-selves
become monopolists. It is
the old story of the big fish eating
tbe little ones. The little fish con-scientiously
disapprove ol the big
ones and of their selfish ways of
gobbling that which is small. Bat
let the little fish escape tbe j.iws of
the big; let them grow up to be big
fish, and they are as real monopo-lists
as the most gigantic
Nrw York Drmorral*.
The Democratic State comniitteu have
issued a call for a State convention to
beheld at Albany 01; October 11. The]
also passed resolutions expressive of syia-pstby
for the President and his family
and stating that the bullet of f.o Sistttio
imperiled the couutry aa the diction
bauds of 1876 had done.
TIte Heroine of Ik. « kite lion...
According to Capt. Henry, ol the
Presidential household, the first
stampede of the doctors occurred
on Friday Ang. L'Ctb, a little after
noon. The symptoms then were so
extremely alaming that they held a
hasty consultation and made one
more tftort to struggle against what
appeared to be the inevitable de
cree of late. In spite of every ef-fort
they could make, it seemed
tuat the patient was rapidly sink-iug
aud his tenure of li/o only a
question of a few minutes or hoars.
Too greatest crisis of all had ap-parently
arisen. Another consul-tation
and it was decided that Mrs.
Gaifield should be immediately no-tified
to prepare (or the wort.t.—
Having came to this determination,
two ol their number visited Mrs.
Garfield in her room and plainly
laid before her what they believed
to be ihe real terrible facts in the
case. They said that it was useless
to struggle longer, that even what
they could do was little, aud ihe
limitation of surgery had been
reached. Tiicy stated the situation
as tenderly as possible, aud asked
that she no looser delude herself
with the idea of there being any
hope of recovery. This was really
the first time that they had formally
given up ihe case. It was then that
the pluck ol this Ii: tlewoman came to
the surface. Every feeling of love,
ami duty, and tenderness cf the
wile and mother came uppermost
in an instant. Rising erect before
them and firmly setting her lips
agaiust the expression ol the emo-tion
that struggled lor utterauce,
she bravely said :
" Gentlemen, yon shall not give
him tip. He is uot going to die;
he is going to live. I feel—I know
it. Go link to yonr post every one
of yon, and leave it nut uutil every
remedy i? exhausted—until death
itself has set his sea: upon him, for
I will not believe that he is dying.
Go back and do v, hat you can.' You
cannot do mote, bat don't give up.
lam bis wife and I say that we will
not give np nntil the end itself is
upon us."
•' In this t lyle,"say«Capt. Henry,
" she met ihe first stampede of the
doctors. This is not, perhaps, her
exact langu ige, bnt it conveys the
idea. There never was Bcch a
woman. She has never given way
longer than a minute or two at a
time to tl s di iplay of ti.-' grief
which ,•• (im a well-nigh consumes
her As - n i as these short paroz-
. i '.' '." would return
once more to her post, and seemed
to inspire t':o*e around ber with
the same indomitable spirit, with
the same limitless will, with Ibe
same supernatural energy. All
along she has borne herself with
the most remarkable grit I ever saw
in a woman. It beats all. While
the rest of us were weakening and
trembling between hopes and fears,
she, a weak woman as yon would
call her, seemed inspired wilh this
wonderful stamina of miud and
body. If Garfield owes his lite to
anybody, it is io Mrs. Garfield.—
But for her I believe he woald long
ago have suocombed to the icy
hand of death. To hei ihe Nation
owes it foi the preservation of his
life. This seems extravagent, but
[ tell yon weeannot give her too
much praise."
After weary, anxious aud prayer-ful
weeks the scene changes, it is
on Tuesday. Sept. 8th at Long
Branch :—" Crete," said Ihe Presi-dent
to his brave little wife, about
eleven o'clock this morning, as the
ringing strokes from the beliry ol
the Protestant Episcopal Church,
almost cross from the cottage,
reached his ears, " what are they
riuging that bell for!"
"Thatf said .\rs. Garfield, who
bad been wailing for the surprise;
" that's the church where we were
when yon first came down. They're
all going there to pray for you to
get well." and getting on her knees
.-he said : " Ami I'm going to pray,
too, James, that it may be soon, loi
I kuow already that the other pray-er
has beeu heard."
to enjoy permanent prosperity at
the -o.st of other nations. \\0,
even a protective tariff, piling im-posts
on the wares with which the
•icad-eat,..s of (heat Britain pay
for our wheat, corn, beef and pork,
can annul the laws of nature. We
bad tour successive great crops,
and we were enabled Io sell our
immense surplus at high prices DT
scarcity of food in Europe. TM
was the foundation of our great
prosperity. This brought in large
supplies ol foreign gold and kept
he balance of trade largely in OUT
favor.
We shall not haveMmud) wheat
this year at best by 60,000,000
bushels. The British market will
draw a large portion of its supply
from Bussia aud contiguous wheat
growing sections. Um „,. ghall
have all that we can use and a large
export surplus. This does not
mean misery or ruin. And, although
the corn crop will be short and
consequently the hog yield light,
vet we need fear no disaster. We
shall have enough and to spare.
There is no danger of a financial
crash. The horizon holds no men-of
a financial storm. With
gold coming iu from Europe iu
huge quantities, and an unliqui-dated
trade balance in our favor
of •100.000,000on which to draw.
we can face thefuture with a cheer-ful
mien.
ni officials make no doubt. Seatou, of the old Satioiml Tntelli
Then and Now.
[Coneord Hej-istcr.l
A short time ago Vance, Jarvis,
Worth and others were perfect]]
satisfied with the road in the hands
of that corporation, and glad that
they wen- rid of 'Besl & Uo.' Sud-denly
ii springs up before the as-tonished
gaze of the distinguished
trio, by their attention being called
toil by merchants who are feeling
ii. thai the Iticbmond ,\. Danville
road has about gobbled up all the
railroads in the State, and that that
Company is 'discriminating' on
freight chai ees.
In Virginia an enema was made
of the republican party and injected
into little Billy Mahone. in tbe hope
of Bavintr Ihe readjuster stomach
solid south.
STAB ROUTE ROBBERS.—Assur-ances
from Washington, unfortun-ately
not so explicit as they could
In- wished, are reiterated that the
Star route robbers have not been
forgotten during the President's
illness. The personages in charge
of the matter are, it is said, now
ready to take the eases into court
and treat Dorsey, Brady and the
others incriminated to* healthful
terms in the penitentiary. The
testimonycollected is to be submit
ted to the grand jury of the District
of Columbia and upon it. the aov-crnnie
the robbers will be broken. It is
rlKiracterislieof the met bod brought
about by long tenure of ower by a
party that the incriminated person-ages
should with apparent sincerity
demand access to the department
records. This has been the prac-tice
hitherto. Bo soon as a robber
was cornered lie tied to the spot
where the traces of his criminality
were to 1«- found and by the eon
nivance of party associates destroy.
ed the evidence. Until the records
in Washington are scanned bv a
party indifferent to the preceding
t'linelionaries or their regime there
will be no means of knowing exact-ly
the amount of robbery perpet-rated
since the change that came
over the party in power in 1870-1.
How .seriously the records muss
compromise the suddenly grown
rich statesmen the significant Bret
in the Interior Department in 1876
isan evidence.—Philadelphia Times
PKESTDENTTAI DISABILITY—
AX ENGLISH VIEW or THE QES-TION.—
In consequence of the ac-cumulation
of executive business
in the United Slates, the time
seems to be rapidly drawing near
when it will be impossible to go
any further, even provisionally,
without sonic arrangements tin-the
conduct of affairs during the dis-ability
of the President. Accord-ing
to common sense, that arrange-ment
should cease when the Presi-dent
again becomes capable, hut
the Supreme Court might not In-able
to reconcile a strict interprets
tion of the Constitution with com
mon sense and equity, although the
Vice President would doubtless in-willing
to acquiesce in any legiti-mate
scheme for removing the ob-stacles
founded on technicalities.
The American people have had
another warning that the machin-ery
of the Constitution is liable to
awkward hitches at points where
it would be dangerous to get into
a dead-lock.—London Timis.
"Swapinrj the Devil" &o.
[Concord Register.]
The effort to cheek the Richmond
& Danville railroad in its anaconda
grip, by wresting the Western road
from them on the mere quibble
thai the time to complete the ex-tension
was secured by 'fraud,1
and turn it over to •Best and his
Boston syndicate, is about as bad
policy as has been any of the
former acts of the State in this
matter. It is'swapping the devil
for the witch.'
What the People Want.
Statesville haiulnuiik: They waut
the Weslren K n.ro.nl finished and
conducted, without regard to poli-tical
influence?, upon business prin-ciples.
Tbey believe now that it is
being put through as rapidly as
possible and there appears no good
reason for disturbing tbe existing
status, if tbe controllers will only-come
to terms, as come tbey should,
upon the matter of discrimination
The condition of the Presideut
o. MS*|U(| IUO irnujuoiel Biuuinuu iios osou ceuuucouuurioaggiiungg ItUhSaLt ItShOe uhmalif- The IOter-OCCan SSyS li • ..'I 1*3 lULel'View W
and affording snlliwciit nutrition to breed papers may safely resume a man-devil, but Mr. G. st'll puts week. It v
euable the little fellow to split tbe their abuse of Vice President Ar- it iu the old way, " I'm a Stalwart had seen hi
uUJ .......I. t.Ih.a..r-. .. .,.„ a.-i ._.»m -~ -i_-*
Washington Notes.
[Correspondence PiTKior]
WASHINGTON D. C, Sept. 15—
Mr. Gowie, 5th Auditor of the
Navy, has received a letter from
voraohama, Japan, from Mrs. Man-eom,
wife of Willie P. Mangum,
flM*, late Consal of the United
otates at Tien-Tsin, China. She
states that the embalmed bodv of
hfr husband will arrive in New
"fork abont the middleot this mon-b
aaviag to attend to private unset-tled
business of Mr. Maugum's,
she will be detained iu the East
seme two or three months. She
therefore requests that tho friends
of her husband iu Washington will
deposit his rertaius in a vault in the
Congressional Burial Ground, where
Diplomatic aud consular officials re-ceive
final or temporary sepnlture.
W Den she comes, arrangements for
bis burial will be made.
Mr. Mangum was the son ot
Pnest.ey II. Mangum, of Wake
county, and nephew of the late dis-tinguished
Senator Mangum, after
whom be was named. Just before
the war he married Miss I,add, of
this city. 1 become acquaiuied
with Mr. Mangum about 1SJS or !).
Ue was an elegant gentleman, of
hne talents and solid worth.
In the Spring of 18C1, adhering
to the Northern caus;-, he was op-pointed
Consul to Ninpo, China,
ont in abont four years was trans-ferred
to Nagasaki, Japan. He re-mained
there some fourteen years,
when he accepted the consulship at
Tien-Tsin, where he died.
THE KOBTH CAROLINA MIDLAND.
Kailroad news, like "niggers" is
" mighty onsartain." It often needs
confirmation to make it reliable.
It is about as hard to obtain as it
is tenuous when you handle it.
A lot of Winstonians, friends ol
the proposed North Carolina -Mid-land,
have been in Alexandria and
this city for two or three days; but
not a word of their conferences
with Mr. Barbour and his associates
can be bad " for love or money," as
trie saying is. Along with them,
registered at the same hotel, are
two or three Northern gentleineu
believed to be capitalists. The
North Carolina delegation is com-posed
as follows : II. \V. Tries,
Salem ; A. II. Phfol, C. B. Gorrell
aud P. A. Wilsou. of Winston.—
Senator Butler, of Sooth Carolina,
is also here.
NORTH CAROLINA NOTES.
Mack Seatou, Esq., sou ol W. \V.
About Vine
gmeer, is Cuiei Clerk of the Pen-sion
Office.
Mr. Kobert K. Cotton, of Pitt
county, is here to leavo his daugh
tcr aud another young lady at
school in Georgetown. Haven't we
some North Carolina seminaries for
young women!
The irresistible Joseph G. Hester,
who has been very quiet for several
months, has broken oot iu a new
place. He has invented and patent-ed
a new steel pen. May he not
find the "pen mightier than the
swo-rdi," w--.i-i-h- w...h..i.c..h. h...e. i..s. s.,a,.i,.d■ tivo .... ........... , ,,v IUI^ |iriun, n .
have slaiu his fellow marine in the So much for American enterprise."
Confederate war ?
The Christmas case will hardly
come up before the first week iu
October. The grand jury bave a
giea; deal ot business ueluio them,
ineluding a number of morder
WCR. They will take early action
II the Uowgato aud Star Bonte
matters. C. W. U.
DEATH OP DELMONICO:—The
deathol Lorenzo Dehnonicothecele-brated
catererofNew i*ork,app< ars
to have caused a feeling of univer-sal
regret, not only amongtbe young
bloods who frequented his famous
iptOWII house, but by II1UI1J of the
•bon ton" who, several times a
month, dined there with iheir fam-ilies.
Mr, Dfliuiiiticn died a victim
to excessive smoking. His cigars
Were made expressly for lliln ill
Havana, and were length) andverj
rtrong. He would smoke ."iddaily.
He began without a eenl in ls.U.
ud has died werthover$2,04)0,000.
and except iu the matteroftoliacco
is said never to have been guilty i f
.lersonal extravagance, lie was
justly proud of the business he had
built up. and noi long ago remark-ed
that there were uo celebrated
divines, lawyers, authors, actors,
doctors, politicians, or social lions
that had not been dined and wined
in his establishments, to say noth-ing
of distinguished visitors from
abroad.
Among others wa- Louis Nupo-li
afterwards Kinperor of the
French, who returned to dine there
daily with James Walleek. This
compliment Dehnonico hugged to
his soul, for be was an ardent ad
mirerof the Napoleons, and used to
wear a lockofNapolcan Hoiiapurte's
hair in the locket ol his watch chain,
and would not, he said, take si".
000 lor it.
De often furnished dinners that
cost from 810,000 to 830,000, and
one time when Jim FrVfc, at I p. in.
ordered a dinner al the Erie build-ing
for 0 p. in., for 150 persons,
Dehnonico had ii ready at sharp 0.
His family will ran his different
restiiianis. but the face ofthe quiet
unassuming little man. who hover-ed
around the dining-room or about
the cashier's desk, has vanished
from the scene ol 11i- glory forever.
Mr. Johu Kelly seems to ' ■■ e ia
pleting arrangements lor laying out
tbe New York Democracv again
this fall. He has had so much ex-penence
that the thmg comes handy riehtiu the end
to him now. ——
ol tbe Stalwarts!"
Wines—Tokay
yard.
[Cur. of ihe News and Obssrrer.l
TOKAY VINEYARD.
rivrTTEvAin. N. C.Sept. 12. 18S1
Myatteutiou baa beeu called ti
the local paragraph in yonr Satnr
V*J.8 l8SUe respecting native wines
Whilst it is undonbtedly true, a^
stated, thar immense quantities oi
American wines are auuoally ship
ped to French ports, and there cased
and labeled and branded with for-eign
marks and then reshipped ami
sold in their native land, at ar.
enormous advance, to those who re
quire a •• foreign" article, neverthe
less justice to myself and mv pal
rons demands that it be added that
there is no difficulty in disposing ol
all that is made at "Tokay."' U\
experience so far has been thai
every gallon of "the marketable
crop is either sold or engaged long
before the succeeding crop is pui
ou tbe market. The demand is
steadily increasing and I feel con-fident
that if the yield were fifty
thousand gallons a year, as we au
ticipate its being within tbe next
year or two, tbe result wonid be the
same. Kven this season, with all
untoward circumstances resulting
from the unprecedented dronght,
we confidently count on hall the
quantity. Hut not to digress. Il
the evil complained of in your ar
tide went no further than that sug
gested, it would only hive theef
tectol parting foolsand their money.
That class, as a mle, despise the
economical and prefer " the high
priced"' in all things, though in
ferior. Wine at a dollar a gallon
is too plebeian. It is their harm-less
whim to pay lour or five prices
for the self same article, eucased in
European packages, in order to en
jay " the reputation" of driuking
the juices of ihe Bliine, the Moselle
or the Douro. But we have the
high authority ot tin. American
Wine and Grape Qromr. as well as
that ol several of tho leading "dail-ies"
of the day, who have investi
gated the subject, for saying that
American wines, like some Ameri-can
citizens who go abroad, are sad
ly contaminated by contact with
vile" bogus" admix;tires; in oilier
words, that they are "doctored''
and flavored, and "blended" with
the refuse of the French winepress,
until their own parents would uover
recognize their denationalized off-spring.
But i; is well known, ac-cording
to the authorities quoted,
that in their briel sojourn on foreign
Soil, they lire adulterated wilh some
of the deadliest drugs known to
the chemist, in older to give "body"
aud increased "bun.'." This ia the
little "honest penny" or perquisite
of the " mixer," a " professional" ol
European origin. We occasional!)
get an intimation as to what extent
meat, aud drink adulteration is car-ried
on iii this " blessed country.p
Sugar, syrups, ground coffee, Hour,
spicex, corn wine (vulgarly called
whisky) and a host of other articles
of daily diet, are replete with poison
ons compounds. Shame on oui
"aw makers that they permit ii
Familiar Quotations.
Grave judges and others learned
in the law, have contributed their
qnots, as iu duty bound, to the com-mon
stock of popular sayings. It
is Frauds Bacon who speaks of
matters that "come home to men's
baainess and bosom," who lays
down the axioms that " Knowledge
is power," and who utters that
solemn warmug to euamored bene-dicts,
•• He that bath a wife aud
children hath giveu hostages to
fortune." We have the biirh an-thority
of the renowned Sir Edward
Uoke for declaring that "corpora-tions
have no souls," aud that "a
man's house is his castle." The ex-preasion
"an accident of au acci-dent,"
is borrowed from LordThar-low.
"The greatest happiness of
the greatest number," occurs iu
Beatham, bat is an acknowledged
translation from the Imrued jurist
Beeearia. To Leviathan Bobbes
we owe the sago maxim, " Words
are wise men's counters, but the
money of fools." It is John Selden
.vim suggests that by throwing a
Straw into the air you may see the
way ot the wind; and to his con-temporary
Ozeostiera is due the
discovery, "With how little wis-dom
the world is governed." Ma«k-i
first used the phrase, "A
wise and iu isterly inactiv.'y.' -Tiie
schoolmaster is abroad," is from a
speech by Lord Brougham. It does
not iin-aii that the teacher is
"abroad," in the sense of being ab-
-••nt, as many seem to interpret the
phrase, bul that he is " abroad"' iu
riii-sen.se of being everywhere at
work. In tfa ■ lamiliar phrase," A
delusion, a mockery and a snare,"
'here is a certain Biblical riug,
winch has some times led to its be-ing
qao:( il as from one or other of
theHebrew prophets; tbowordsare
in fact, an extract Irom the judg-ment
ol Lord Denman at tbe trial
of OKJooDell.—Chamber's Journal
Wiuo until lately has been ■
European specialty. Why no! the
''enterprise" of the Old World keep
pace wi'h that of the New in this
ber special production 1
It is self evident, if uot axiomatic,
that the nearer the source ol sup
ply the purer the article. The origi-nal
manufacturer, whether ol meat
or drink, dale not resort to these
base expedients.
In conclusion, ii is a weli known
statistical fact that lor the past lew
tears ihe production ol pure Euro-pean
win- shas beeu entirely inade-quate
to the home dem ind, and is
steadily decreasing. Deuce, what
light has the American consumei
in assume, as he" sips his sherry,
port or sauterne, that the mixer or
ci.mj ounder is giving him t!-" gen
nine Staff, when they know lull well
that IbeAbominable com pounds will
satisfy bis fashionably vitiated
taste equally welll Toe bon
ropean) palate, being ace:
to, demands and requires the genu-ine
article. Facts are stubborn
things, but facts.
W. ,1 G B1 SEN.
THETEUB WIFK:—The truewife
is often unfashionable in loving ber
husband and him only,in not caring
to attract idle udunri.ti«.u or tbe
homage ol tbe more serious ad ired
When she married it was lor love,
pure and simple; mid she did not
look to her wifebood as to ber pa-pers
of release from control and her
charter for nniimitt ,1 freedom. She
has no very decided opinioni oi
politics, woman's rights, or the
doctrine of late and free-will. She
slips insensibly, and by the natural
training of love, into the groove ol
though: v ii.-le tin ii fivl .
himself, and holds bis position to be
the best of all because it is Ins. She
is more co-lent with his lame thai
she would be with In r own ; indeed,
-In- finds hers in Ins, and would not
care to be-a personage on her own
sccouot. She desires for hem f,
for her honor and rapn me i eraonal
happiness, only his love, only bis
healib and prosperity; aud so loug
M lie is sab', her star is without a
cloud to veil its happiness.
Six Nevada widows, each worth
over (300,000, have formed .i ci m-pact
and solemnly agreed to take
no men but editors lor second hus-bands.
Gentlemen, even in tin-darkest
hour we have stuck to it
that things would work out all
This Forest Fires.
OlHOimuTTi, Sept 12.—The foi.
IOWIDR appeal has been telegraphed
from POM iloroo.
To the American people: We have
tonight returned from the burned
district of Huron aud Ban Ilae
counties.
We bave seen burnt, disfigured
and writhing bodies of men, women
and children ; rough board coffins
contained the dead followed to the,
grave by a few blinded, despairing
relatives; crowds ol half-starved
pi Ople at some of the slations, ask-ing
bread for their families and
iii ighbors.
We hear of mine than "00 vic-tims
already burned and more char-red
and bloated bodies are daily
discovered. Already more than
1500 families are. found to be utter-ly
destitute and houseless. They
are huddled in barns, in school-houses
and in their neighbor's
bouses, scorched, blinded and help-less:
Bonn still wander hall crazed
around tbe ruins of theii habita-tions
vaiuly seeking their dead;
some iu speechless agony wringing
their hands and refusing iota-com-forted.
Mon- than iii.nun people,
who only a week ago occupied hap-py,
comfortable homes, arc today
houseless and homeless sufferers.
They were hungry and almost
naki-d, when louud, and iu such
numbers and BO widely seatterad
that our best efforts and great
resources fail to supply their im-mediate
wants. Without speedy
aid many wiil perish and many will
suffer and become exilea
Our people will do their utmost
for then relief, but all our resources
would tail io meet their necessities.
We apjieal to the charity ami geoi
rosity ol tbe Americau peop i
Bend help without del \\.
E 0, OARLKTON,
Mayor ol Port Huron I .. dr-
IIIIIII ol Me iel I lomn
v. iiliam Uanrafl I ,\ Ward,
Oharles II. Peek, Johu i'. Sanboro,
Omer I). Conger, Peter [J. Sanl
Envious People-
Tbe em ion novi r rej lice in the
turn ol theii (Mends. Di-rectly
a man ria a in lil - they come
to the front with a story about his
low origin, an I wonder that so Ob
scure an individual should ever
have amounted to anything. The
fact that be has amounted to some-thing,
that he has proved nimsi II a
success, si i- u ike some of Ins
aequ uu ancea i -. . hat they bave
been rubbed in a mauner, and
by so much he baa risen above
them in pa itiou or influence, by so
much tbey are dwarfed. Men who
bave groped iliodlj to find a lining
: I ic loi their talents find it. and
with it e an s naturally apprecia-tion,
'.■.■'!; ; ity.
Can Foi une cause any-thing
but n i liciug in a magnani-mous
and noule mindf One thing
is ciiii'i: the man or wnmun who
is occupied in picking to pieces Un-crown
lawlully won by a successful
neighbor, is uot likely ever to wear
oue; for the lime thns spent is
worse than wasted, aud the disposi-tion
that can find pleasure in em-ployment
so iguomiuious and de-grading,
eau never Had those as-pirants,
labors and toils congenial,
which bring deserved reputation,
honor and success.
Gen, ,!' -eph K. Johnston has
written a letter expressing regie!
that pressing business eugagemi ota
will prevent him Irom attending
tbe reunion ol the Nerih Carolina
ex-Conlederate Bairigb
during the approaehii _ State lair.
He says he " could Bod few gruti.
SECRKTAUV WISDOM had a briel: licatious in the world i qual to that
interview with the President 1».-' ( ot meeting again the North Caro-
was the first time be i hnians with whom he served in the
im since the President most trying times that this century-was
shot. i has ever known."